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These words contain such a wonderful secret:
the whole mystery of growth is wrapped up in them.
Toil not, labor not to grow. Growth is never promoted in that way; busy thought never adds to your
stature, and yet thought was made to be busy, for
thought is the action of Mind!
It is natural to grow, and we grow without effort.
If we use thought as a cause of growth, we make a mistake; thought is only the method by which growth is accomplished; the impelling power is in Mind which moves thought on to do its will. Thought is the servant, not Master; the action, not the Actor; the expression, not
the Expressor.
Thought does not add to my stature, because I am
that I am, eternally. Thought may see what I am, and
seeing, declare it. The work of thought is not to make
me anything, but to continually express what I am.
"Their strength is to sit still." In the outer, be passive, but in the inner, to "sit still" is to be brimful of the
consciousness of Omnipotence! Be positive.
"For thus saith the Lord ...... in returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and confidence shall be
your strength; and ye whole not." -- Isa. 30:7-15.
"O, Jerusalem, . . . how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and we would not." -- Matt. 23:37.
"Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life."
-- Jno. 5:40.
We cannot "sit still" in Life, in Truth, and in Love,
until we have come into Christ -- come into knowledge of
being Divine. Then I rest in Being; I direct thoughts to
express the truth of my Being Divine, and the word, or
visible result of thought, will follow. Growth, then, is
